When we think of a city’s architecture, often we think about the tall buildings packed along a tight grid system rather than the vast network of informal/illegal housing developments that dot the fringes of developing urban landscapes. But in South America these informal shantytowns, known as favelas, are becoming the source for a new wave of architectural innovation.

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